The underlying goal of disaster aftercare is to contribute to the restoration of control at both individual and societal level. A disaster HIA may contribute to a pro-active government response by providing information on the needs of the victims and, consequently, on the relief facilities required to support individual and collective post-disaster care activities. It may also serve to recogniz...

This extended abstract describes a field test of the Field Information Support Tool (FIST) during the international Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise Pacific Endeavor 2010, in Singapore and the Philippines.

Migration is generally considered to be one of the primary responses to a natural disaster. The existing literature widely acknowledges the fact that disaster victims migrate from affected areas. This paper, though, provides empirical evidence of the non-occurrence of out-migration in the aftermath of the 14 April 2004 tornado in Bangladesh. Data collected from 291 respondents from eight tornad...

This study investigates dynamic inventory relocation to respond proactively the changing relief demand forecasts over time. In particular, we examine how relocate mobile optimally serve nonstationary stochastic at several potential disaster sites. We propose a model using programming (DP) and develop both analytical numerical results regarding optimal policies, minimum cost-to-go function, valu...

In this paper, we address a two-echelon humanitarian logistics network design problem involving multiple central warehouses (CWs) and local distribution centers (LDCs) and develop a novel two-stage scenariobased possibilistic-stochastic programming (SBPSP) approach. The research is motivated by the urgent need for designing a relief network in Tehran in preparation for potential earthquakes to ...

A HURRICANE IN New Orleans, Louisiana, was no longer just a threat but a reality. At the New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport, a small group of Boston-based National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) physicians met with military officers, who informed us that 5 years ago they were charged with preparation for potential national disasters. A hurricane in New Orleans was 1 of 3 scenario...